A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars
“While the Waymo Driver is designed to handle dark traffic signals as four-way stops, it may occasionally request a confirmation check to ensure it makes the safest choice.” — waymo.com/blog/2025/12...
Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks
even in gym and band class https://www.nbcnews.com/... LinkedIn: Tyler Kingkade : Whether to ban smartphones in schools was a huge discussion over the past two years, and the banning side clearly won ...
Open letter signed by 800+ founders, VCs, and others: Sequoia must act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything”
where the hell is Sequoia going to find a replacement for investing acumen like that? [embedded post] So Mayer / @suchmayer : #AltText the image is a tweet by Shaun Maguire, in which he says that Mamd...
Sources in Hollywood and Silicon Valley discuss AI's impact: creatives view AI as an existential threat, studios see a cost saver, and both sides need a deal
Adam Conover started to worry a few months ago that a computer could take his job. A comedian in Los Angeles … Twitter: @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw See also Mediagazer Twitter: Lucas Shaw / @lucas_sh...
As Twitter's problems mount, Elon Musk is on pace to tweet over 750 times in November, or more than 25 times a day, up from around 13 per day in April
The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify his actions. — Ryan Mac, who is based in Los Angeles …
A profile of Peter Thiel, who plans to leave Meta's board to focus on politics, funding far-right MAGA candidates who peddle conspiracies and deny Biden won
NYT @rmac18 and @llerer 1st reported about his involvement yesterday — More details about the app on @axios: https://www.axios.com/... @nycsouthpaw : NYT profiles Peter Thiel, the billionaire aparthei...
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles says a hacker gained access to its network in October, compromising the information of ~400,000 patients including clinical data
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Overview of the severe shortage of cybersecurity workers across the US government and private sector, despite an unprecedented slate of hacking threats
Fallout from the Pegasus Project has started as more details emerge … Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop : DOJ reveals 27 U.S. Attorneys offices had emails compromised in SolarWinds hack Tweets: ISSA Los Angele...
Facebook says it has a policy letting any person initiate a takedown of a post containing an image of their residence, regardless of the post's newsworthiness
just very bad ones.” Pretty accurate! To be fair, people WANT Facebook to exercise judgment, except when they DON'T want Facebook to exercise judgment. Doing nothing is also judgment. https://twitter....
An inside look at the world of TikTok “collab houses” in Los Angeles, amid allegations of exploitative talent managers withholding money from influencers
The Girls in the Valley was supposed to be a collective of Instagram baddie best friends. Then it self-destructed. Tweets: @hautepop , @voxdotcom , @mbmelodies , @rafyevans , @binkleyonstyle , @voxdo...